Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

by Josh Toth

Book Overview

Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other" persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties in America's aesthetic production, finally locating a potential narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813941113
• ISBN13: 9780813941110
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"